Just went and cleaned out my AKO (Army Knowledge Online) email account and found this : The U.S. Army Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center (EREC) Staff wish to congratulate you on your promotion to Staff Sergeant. You need to take steps now for your next promotion. The funny part here is that I have been flagged for non-promotability due to being a fat bastard for oh lets say going on 2 years now. I in fact reminded our company many an...
Just went and cleaned out my AKO (Army Knowledge Online) email account and found this : The U.S. Army Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center (EREC) Staff wish to congratulate you on your promotion to Staff Sergeant. You need to take steps now for your next promotion. The funny part here is that I have been flagged for non-promotability due to being a fat bastard for oh lets say going on 2 years now. I in fact reminded our company many an...
I got the expansion pack for Warhammer 40K : Winter Assault a few days ago and have yet to able to use the damn thing. I am not alone in this as many gamers who purchased this pack have the exact same issue. This is a great example of how copy protection schemes can backfire on a developer. THQ/Relic were so concerned that people would pirate their expansion pack (made alomst entirely from independant modders work and simply repackaged neatly BTW), that they apparently h...
Just bought this hunk of crap (Weed Eater Model RTE 115 "Twist and Edge") from Home Depot today. Got it home put it together (yes correctly) and had a sgood start on the back yard for about 5 minutes when the black plastic clip on shield just fell right off! On close inspection you can see where the motor simply got so hot that it melted the clips right off the friggin thing! That black sludge is melted plastic. Taking it back later and getting a n...
Courtesy of Zombietime . My favorie is the guy in the hammerand sickle CCCP shirt with the Katrina sign complate with faux Cyrillic spelling. Enjoy them all !
MSNBC 5 minutes ago: "No one should be called a 'looter'. They should all be called 'foragers'." I can't express the trite smugness in the woman's voice as she spouted this bit of horseshit. She really thought she had solved a World Issue with her exercise in inanity. Look, you "forage" for food and water. A TV under one arm and a gym bag of DVD's under the other is not "foraging". They call that looting you politically correct schmuck. Slack Jawed Boo...
NextGen has a great interview with Greg Costikyan about the future of software and game development/distobution. A little Stardock-plugging excerpt: I think we will launch with a hundred or more titles. I'm not relying solely on broadly populist products although we will certainly be carrying those. We'll also be looking at, for example, war games where there is a consumer following but which rarely has much in the way of retail distribution any more. For example, companies ...
Once again I risk the revocation of my membership in the VRWC by not following the subliminal commands sent out by the mothership but I like living dangerously. Tom "The Hammer" Delay's current woes are of his own making. Delay is one of those Congressmen who exude the "Old Boy" aroma from every pore and I am happy to see him step down from his leadership position in the House and I would be even happier to see him resign from Congress ...
I came across this over at J. Lileks outstanding ScreedBlog, There is a lot more to it so go read it . An excerpt: At some point the adamantine skulls of the rally organizers might be penetrated by the realization that the “anti-war” cause is not served by letting the death-to-Israel crowd trot alongside, or diluting the message with a million other complaints. Middle America might have legitimate gripes with the Administration’s war policy, but they’re disinclined to side with ...
Ladies and gentlemen of JU You simply have to read this guy bitch about how the news let him down because Rita wasn't as bas as it could have been and how evacuation was a really big hassle that "officials" should have somehow waved a magic fucking wand and made into a Disney goddamned vacation for him! *puff* *pant* *drool* Context people... context... This man has already lost his a mere month after watching Katrina smash N.O. a...
A simple yet subtle demonstration of socio-economic forces : Let us begin at 0900 Fort Hood time with 4 Army Privates... Worthy, Walker, Fiffie, and Neddo. Split them into two teams of Worthy/Fiffie and Walker/Neddo and give each team the task of mowing 4 acres of grass with one push mower and one weed whacker to each team. Our NCOIC's for this detail give each team slightly different sets o...
I love Thomas Biskup's free RPG ADOM . It is a lovingly crafted masterwork which has a depth of gameplay I have never seen anywhere else (and thats saying something). The man is a saint for providing the world with this product for nothing besides postcards. All that being said though I have one and only one complaint about his free ice cream (for those of you who don't know "free ice cream" is something of an in-joke here at JU) : ...
If you don't remember what happened during Rathergate look here at LGF's archive of Charles' debunking of the memos that very day. For impact you can simply watch the promos for KGUN Channel 9 here in Arizona where they have been trumpetting there commitment to fact checking ever since. Heck in the local news stories they actuall put up on-screen checklist of verified fact points for any major coverage. Wear you...
Maybe it is just me but all the news networks covering the JetBlue emergency landing seem terribly disappointed when expert after expert tells them that this is really not that serious. Even Sean Hannity redirected to try and find out if other cases ended in tragedy. Fucking ghouls.
Quote of the week : (While testing a tactical radio inside an active army barracks with Navy Seals) Navy Seal : “ What’s the deal with all these army guys out here painting the rocks? ” (Simultaneously) Army Lieutenant Colonel : “That’s what you have soldiers do when you don’t have anything scheduled for them.” Greywar : “That’s a sure sign that a fucking moron is in charge here.” The look ...